The Elden Ring: DLC story trailer left us with more questions than answers, but some things are starting to become clearer. Spoilers for the base game lurk below. With Elden Ring’s DLC now only a matter of weeks away, the story trailer has given us some more clues as to what’s going on – and it seems to be much more than simply a battle between and the fiery new villain, .
The trailer seems to suggest that Messmer has always been an important figure in the story of . However, both Shadow of the Erdtree trailers have implied that everything about this figure has been scrubbed from the historical record – and we’re likely about to find out why. New Elden Lord Miquella has always been a wild card in the Elden Ring story.
After all, if you kill every major boss in the game, then he’s the only demigod child of Marika left alive. This led many fans to correctly assume he’d play a major role in the DLC. However, many of us believed he’d be a vengeful figure, seeking retribution on the Tarnished for , while simultaneously attempting to wrestle power from them.
We were led to believe that Miquella had mutated into a twisted, misshapen creature, languishing in a cracked egg in Mohg’s palace, tragically destined to never reach his potential. This is typical grimdark FromSoft storytelling. Miquella was touted as the best of Marika and Radagon’s children, and a truly benevolent figure who aimed to heal the world and everyone in it.
Sadly, his dreams were cut short by t.